 | David Lester Richardson - 1840
...grtai ; Of bearing, from the life Ikat jilU tkt jiaad, To Hat tchiih ttarblet tkrvugk the rrnatvood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along tke line. These passages, (to which could be added many others of equal excellence from the same writer,)... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840
...tainted green ; Of hearing:, from the life that Jills thejiood, To that which warbles through the rental wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and livcs along the line. These passages, (to which could be added many others of equal excellence from... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 807 Seiten
...And hound sncacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To thai 0 ) 1 @ W=g(´ 0 ]1< B F ?^ 8 D * 佼@...d d j v8 W 4 =6G % B0l f ƪ NK N vy Ib #[oݺYԚ T x : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 807 Seiten
...ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843
...— a singular paradox — an example of power exdibi ted in the description of a spider's web ! " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Here we have distinct ideas of the most delicate sensibility, the most acute perception, and the wonderful... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 807 Seiten
...hearing, from the life that fills the flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The ipider's se array; So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth Cast forth redounding : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 48 Seiten
...between, A hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads1 in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How... | |
 | E. Whimper - 1845 - 188 Seiten
...which it spins ; so delicately fine is it, that the slightest accident will break and destroy it. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The spider sits in the middle of its web, and at the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 600 Seiten
...toes give it warning of prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its victim. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." M. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp carried off and destroyed by one of these species.... | |
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What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through... 
